Minutes earlier, Fox News called the key battleground state of Ohio for President Obama, sealing his re-election. But as the network took live shots of jubilant Obama supporters celebrating their victory camped outside the Obama re-election headquarters in Chicago, Karl Rove began building a case against the call his employer network had just made.

Rove explained that when Fox called Ohio, only 74% of the vote was in showing President Obama with a lead of roughly 30,000 votes. But, as Rove contended, with 77% reporting according to the Ohio Secretary of State office, the Presidentâs lead had been slashed to just 991 votes.

âWe gotta be careful about calling the thing,â Rove said, âIâd be very cautious about intruding in on this process.â

Rove was supremely confident that the numbers coming in from Ohio throughout the night that favored President Obama werenât indicative of who would win Ohio when all the votes were ultimately tabulated by the state's computers. With a quarter of the vote still out there, Rove was anticipating a shift to the Right just after 11 pm, which, coincidentally, is exactly what happened in 2004.

That year, John Kerry and the entire nation were watching Ohio just after the 11pm hour. Florida had just been called for George W. Bush and according to the Electoral College math whoever won Ohio would win the election. And considering that exit polls from the state showed John Kerry with a substantial lead, there were a lot of tense moments for Karl Rove and the Republicans that night.

Then the clock struck 11:14pm, and the servers counting the votes in Ohio crashed. Election officials had planned for this sort of thing to happen and already contracted with a company in Chattanooga, Tennessee called SMARTech to be the failsafe should the servers in Ohio go down.

As journalist Craig Unger lays bare in his book, Boss Rove, SMARTech was drenched in Republican politics. One of the early founders of the company was Mercer Reynolds who used to the finance chairman of the Republican Party. SMARTechâs top client was none other than the Bush-Cheney campaign itself and SMARTech also did work for Jeb Bush and the Republican National Committee. And it was Ohioâs Republican Secretary of State, Ken Blackwell, who ensured that SMARTech received the contract to count votes on election night should the servers go down, which they did at exactly 11:14pm.

Sixty long seconds later the servers came back up in Ohio, but now with vote rerouted through SMARTech in Chattanooga. And, coincidentally, Bushâs prospects for re-election were suddenly a lot brighter. The vote totals that poured into the system from SmartTECH's computer in Chattanooga were flipping the exit polls on their head. The lead Kerry had in the exit polls had magically reversed by more than 6%, something unheard of in any other nation in the developed world, giving Bush the win in Ohio and the presidency for another four years.

Unger further explains in his book that the only independent analysis of what happened in Ohio was done by Richard Hayes Phillips and published in the book, Witness to a Crime. Phillips and his team analyzed more than 120,000 ballots, 127 polls books, and 141 signature books from Ohioâs 2004 election.

Phillips found zero irregularities in vote totals from all the counties that reported results before the servers crashed at 11:14pm. But of the fourteen counties that came in after the crash connected Ohio's election computers to SmartTECH's computers in Chattanooga, every single one of them showed voter irregularities - that all favored George W. Bush.

So the question is: on election night this year, when Karl Rove was protesting the call his network had just made in Ohio, was Rove anticipating a wave of unpredicted vote totals to swing the election back to Mitt Romney after a statewide server crash, just as had happened in 2004?

Perhaps. He did make the point that the race was about to drastically narrow according to the Secretary of Stateâs office. And as The Free Press reports, a number of odd similarities with 2004 began occurring in Ohio this year just after the 11pm hour once again:

âCuriously, the Ohio Secretary of Stateâs vote tabulation website went down at 11:13pm, as reported by Free Press election protection website monitors, and mentioned by Rove on the news. This was one minute earlier than the time on election night 2004 -- when Ohio votes were outsourced to Chattanooga, Tennessee -- and then the vote flipped for Bushâ¦This time, the Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) vote tabulation site went down as on election night as well. In his rant on Fox, Rove argued that Fox News should not confirm Ohio for Obama until votes came in from the southwest Ohio GOP strongholds of Delaware, Butler and Warren counties and suburban Cincinnati. It was after the crash of the secretary of stateâs site in 2004 that improbable vote totals came in from Republican counties in southwest Ohio â particularly Butler, Clermont, and Warren counties. These three counties provided more than Bushâs entire Ohio victory margin of 119,000.â

Only this time, when the servers came back up, the votes never flipped. President Obamaâs lead held and he went on to win, while Karl Rove - and Mitt Romney - watched in slack-jawed amazement.

We know there was a parade of Conservative talking heads in the days before the election predicting a landslide victory for Mitt Romney. Is it because they lived in a bubble, lacking pollster Nate Silverâs facts and arithmetic that actually showed the President winning in a landslide? Could it be that Roveâs election night freak-out was just a result of this same Election Day ignorance held by all Republicans? Or was Rove genuinely shocked by what he was seeing because he knew the fix was in, just like in 2004, and there was no way President Obama was going to win re-election?

And if thatâs the case, why did the plan to steal the election not work?

Hereâs where the story gets really interesting.

Just a few weeks before Election Day, the hacktivist group Anonymous issued a video statement against Karl Rove. Anonymous is notorious for numerous cyber actions against the Justice Department, the Pentagon, the Recording Industry of America, the Motion Picture Association of America, and even the Church of Scientology.

In the video released prior to Election Day, Anonymous warns Karl Rove that heâs being watched. âWe know that you will attempt to attempt to rig the election of Mitt Romney to your favor,â a black-robed figure in a Guy Fawkes mask says in the video. âWe will watch as your merry band of conspirators try to achieve this overthrow of the United States government.â
The statement reads, âWe began following the digital traffic of one Karl Roveâ¦After a rather short time, we identified the digital structure of Karlâs operation and even that of his ORCA. This was an easy task in that barn doors were left open and the wind swept us inside.âThe âORCAâ that Anonymous is referring to in the press release is a massive, high-tech get-out-the-vote system created by the Romney campaign this year that will keep tabs on potential voters and coordinate with operatives to target who has and hasnât voted yet on Election Day.

Romneyâs Communications Director Gail Gitcho bragged about how sophisticated ORCA is saying, âAt 5 oâclock when the exit polls come out, we wonât pay attention to that. We will have had much more scientific information based on the political operation we have set up.â In other words, ORCA will know who won Ohio better than any exit polls.

But, according to Anonymous, ORCA had nothing to do with getting out the vote and everything to do with rigging the vote.

âWe coded and created, what we call The Great Oz. A targeted password protected firewall that we tested and refined over the past weeks. We placed this code on more than one of the digital tunnels and their destination that Karl's not so smart worker bees planned to use on election night.â

Anonymous alleges these âdigital tunnelsâ were leading to servers in three different states. The release goes on to detail what happened on election night as Roveâs operatives attempted to access these tunnels. âWe watched as Karl's weak corrupters repeatedly tried to penetrate The Great Oz. These children of his were at a loss-how many times and how many passwords did they try-exactly 105.â

When up against this type of shit, that may be the only way they can win. From the article linked:

"But even knowing this, I was not prepared for a conversation I had at Thanksgiving dinner with my brother-in-law, Henry, who has lived most of his life in a home for the mentally disabled and although now in his 40s, has the intelligence level of a 6-year-old.

âObama saved me,â he said to me out of the blue.

âWhat do you mean?â

âI voted for him for president and now heâs saving me.â

I was taken aback by these words, since Henry had no idea who Obama was, or what a president might be, and would be unable to fill out a registration form let alone get to the polling place by himself.

So I asked him how he knew that and how he had registered and cast his vote. In halting, impeded speech he told me that the people who take care of him at the home filled out âthe papersâ to register him to vote, told him how Obama cared for him, even taught him the Obama chants, and then took him to the polling place to vote. They did the same for all of the mentally disabled patients in their care, approximately 60 in all."

When up against this type of shit, that may be the only way they can win. From the article linked:

"But even knowing this, I was not prepared for a conversation I had at Thanksgiving dinner with my brother-in-law, Henry, who has lived most of his life in a home for the mentally disabled and although now in his 40s, has the intelligence level of a 6-year-old.

âObama saved me,â he said to me out of the blue.

âWhat do you mean?â

âI voted for him for president and now heâs saving me.â

I was taken aback by these words, since Henry had no idea who Obama was, or what a president might be, and would be unable to fill out a registration form let alone get to the polling place by himself.

So I asked him how he knew that and how he had registered and cast his vote. In halting, impeded speech he told me that the people who take care of him at the home filled out âthe papersâ to register him to vote, told him how Obama cared for him, even taught him the Obama chants, and then took him to the polling place to vote. They did the same for all of the mentally disabled patients in their care, approximately 60 in all."

And I wonder what percentage of the vote this accounted for, even if it were true?

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I'd say about 75% of the black community.

What could be stupider than voting for someone just because of the color of their skin.

That demonstrates a SERIOUS lack of cognitive ability and sound judgement throughout the community.
It's really quite sad to see naive people duped by the pied piper. Remember he has to be paid "eventually".

What could be stupider than voting for someone just because of the color of their skin.

That demonstrates a SERIOUS lack of cognitive ability and sound judgement throughout the community.
It's really quite sad to see naive people duped by the pied piper. Remember he has to be paid "eventually".

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Yet stupider is a comparison of a mentally disabled individual with 75% of an ethnic group.

And how stupid would one be to think that Mitt Romney would strike a positive chord among African Americans? Or that 10% of America could sway an election? If you think that, you should be stroking every nigger you see with a plea to vote Republican.

In fact, voting for Romney is evidence of a serious cognitive disability. And that's why he lost. America has not been taken over by the cretins, morons, imbeciles, miscreants, bigots, and losers.